The rise of ‘chemsex’ on London’s gay scene – BBC News
For Radio 4’s The Report, Mobeen Azhar investigates what’s become known as ‘chemsex’ and the increasingly visible trend for drug-fuelled…
Meet Iran’s gay mullah forced to flee the country – BBC News
In Iran, homosexuality is banned and punishable by execution under its strict code of sharia, or Islamic law. In a…
Sue Lloyd-Roberts’ diary: Life after leukaemia diagnosis – BBC News
BBC journalist Sue Lloyd-Roberts is keeping a video diary for the Victoria Derbyshire programme. She has been diagnosed with an…
Meeting the Brits with guns – BBC News
When you mention guns, the UK is definitely not the first place you’d think of. But, there are more than…
Overpopulation: Will we run out of space? BBC News
We live in a time of unprecedented population growth. People born 60 years ago have seen the population of the…
My Life With A Face Tattoo – BBC News
It’s estimated that one in five of the UK population has a tattoo, and that number is even higher amongst…
Syrian kids explain the war – BBC News
On the fifth anniversary of the Syrian war, we ask children to explain how the war has affected them. Some…
Turkey: Getting to grips with Kurdish dancing – BBC News
As we approach the Turkish elections, the BBC’s Selin Girit and Mark Lowen are travelling the length and breadth of…
Turkey election: Will Kurdish HDP party be kingmaker? – BBC News
The votes of Turkey’s 15 million Kurds could decide whether the governing AK Party consolidates its grip on power or…
Review 2015: The year in UK politics – BBC News
From the Conservative victory in the general election, to Jeremy Corbyn’s appointment as Labour leader, Adam Fleming looks back at…
Turkey politics: ‘Women are almost non-existent’ says Elif Şafak – BBC News
Elif Şafak, acclaimed author of “The Bastard of Istanbul”, says the rise in the numbers of female parliamentarians is not…
92-year-old WW2 veteran flies Spitfire again – BBC News
92-year-old Air Transport Auxiliary veteran Joy Lofthouse returns to the skies in a Spitfire 70 years on from the end…
US students head to Germany for free degrees – BBC News
While the cost of college education in the US has reached record highs, Germany has abandoned tuition fees altogether for…
Step inside the Large Hadron Collider (360 video) – BBC News
A 360 tour of CERN that takes you deep inside the Large Hadron Collider – the world’s greatest physics experiment…
Iraq: Islamic State inside Mosul – BBC News
It’s a city where entire districts have been emptied of people and where ancient sites have been systematically destroyed. Now,…
What is it like being black in India? BBC News
What is it like being black in India? That’s what BBC Pop Up wanted to find out after Benjamin Pratt,…
Hiroshima atomic bomb: Survivor recalls horrors – BBC News
Thursday marks 70 years to the day since the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the Japanese…
“People don’t believe I am Japanese” says Miss Japan – BBC News
With a Japanese mother and African American father, Ariana Miyamoto has become the first bi-racial woman to be crowned Miss…
Ex-Muslim: Leaving Islam – BBC News
Islam is the fastest growing religion in the UK, with the number of Muslims almost doubling in the last few…